A terrorist brain has broken his silence on a thwarted bombplot that almost one of his brothers killed and left two others with decades of prison sentences – and has a hair -raising warning for what he says that will happen.
Now wheelchair -bound and in the death cell in a prison in the Iraqi desert, Tarek Khayat does not regret planning 400 people on board an airplane that flew from Sydney with a bomb who was misled to wear on board.
Khayat, who was once one Feared Commander of the Islamic State, his brothers Khaled and Mahmoud, based in Sydney, employed Dupe Amer in Vliegen to Abu Dhabi on Etihad Flight 451 with a bomb in his luggage on July 15, 2017.
Eight years later he had a bad smile when he remembered his involvement in what would have been the most deadly terror attack on Australian soil.
“In the end my brothers were influenced by me. That's right, “Khayat told for 60 minutes via an interpreter in his very first television interview ever.
“However, I did not expect that they would be so influenced and achieve what they have achieved.”
Brothers Khaled and Mahmoud were found guilty of conspiracy to prepare or plan a terrorist law and were imprisoned for 40 years and 36 years with non-conditional periods of 30 and 27 years respectively.
The callous contempt for Amer's life easily came to his brothers because, unlike them, he was not a pious Muslim and enjoyed a drink and festive lifestyle – he was replacement, just like the 400 other innocent victims on board the flight.
Tarek Khayat (photo) does not regret a thwarted bombplot that 400 people on board would have killed an Etihad flight
However, the conspiracy to sacrifice Amer to become an ignorant mass murderer was thwarted at the last minute.
The conspiracy to hide the bomb in a meat mill came loose when Amer tried to check in and was told by the staff that it was too heavy for his hand luggage.
“It was almost 9 kg, you were only allowed 7 kg,” Amer remembers.
The woman at the Etihad check office told him he had to get something out of the bag.
Khaled, who had packed Amer's bag for him and brought him to the airport, took the meat mill out and rushed away.
Amer got the flight to Abu Dhabi and to Lebanon.
Two weeks later, the Australian federal police fell over the houses of the Khayat brothers in Sydney South-West after a tip of intelligence services.
In Lebanon Amer was shocked to discover what his brothers had planned.
The wife of the Etihad-Check-Bureau told Amer Khayat (photo) that he had to get something out of his bag
Khaled Khayat (photo) took his brother Amer's bag in front of him and drove him to the airport
Amer was also held shortly thereafter and spent two years without conviction in a prison of Beirut before he was finally released from any involvement in the horrible conspiracy and was allowed to return to Australia.
Amer said that he “can't forgive” his brothers for what they did, but that he tries to “forget”.
'It is of course painful for me, but what can you do? That's it. Forgive, I can't forgive. Forget them, forget that I have brothers, “he said.
'They chose me because (they think) I am the bad person. My lifestyle is different. '
Tarek Khayat has a hair-raising message for the Western Islamic State has not been defeated and will increase his war, also with recent atrocities such as a 14-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in Austria.
“This is just the start of a new era of terror,” he said.
“The Islamic State has begun. It started.
“The state of Islam will not die, but will return stronger than it was.”
CCTV won the brothers who arrived at Sydney Airport, hidden in a meat mill with a bomb. The plot was later thwarted by the check -in staff of the airport
Although he wanted to forget his brothers and what they have done to him, the consequences of what would continue to play in the spirit of Amer, just like the instructions he missed.
His brothers had avoided him for years, but they suddenly wanted him to visit their sister.
Then Khaled insisted that he brought a meat mill in front of the sister, but he stood in packing it himself.
Khaled, who had never brought Amer to the airport before, insisted that he was driving him that time.
And the most shocking of all, Khaled gave Amer hug that lasted a few minutes at the airport – embracing what he thought was the last time with the brother he sent to his death.
Amer (depicted in 2019) said he “can't forgive” his brothers for what they did
Andrew McCabe was acting director of the FBI at the time of the failed plot.
'I think the thing that shocked me the most and still impresses me to this day, the refinement is able to send an explosive device in Australia from Syria, and then able to His to set abroad to set that device, “he said.
“That was a level of planning and really very creative version that we have not seen in one of the many suddenly that we have thwarted until then.”
He warned that ISIS will remain a threat in 2025.
'I think there is no doubt that our experiences in 2024 and seeing what ISIS in particular was able to do all over the world must wake our governments and our against terrorism professionals in ISIS as one of the threats with the highest priority Must have to do with, “said Andrew McCabe.
